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help them control their emotions or render impartial 

 judgments on matters that come before them. 



As the answers continued coming in, a great temptation 

 presented itself to change the title from "A Survey of 

 National Trends in Biology" to that of "The Psycholog- 

 ical Reactions of Biologists," but a calmer judgment pre- 

 vailed. 



Political, religious, educational, and traditional bounda- 

 ries are so much a part and parcel of the human individual 

 that, try as he will, he can never avoid being influenced 

 by them. 



One letter was filled with the bitterness of life because 

 of his country's partition, leaving but an insignificant 

 group of hillocks, as the writer put it, which men now 

 force him to call by the name of a country, for centuries 

 great and glorious. He no longer feels he has a Father- 

 land. For him, his country has ceased to exist. Another 

 breathed of hope and looked with patriotic enthusiasm 

 to a wondrous future following the birth of a new Father- 

 land whose racial and national ambitions have had to lie 

 dormant almost since time immemorial. 



Let us note in what specific fields of biological endeavor 

 the majority of experimenters have been working during 

 our generation, and what it was that gave impetus to 

 such work. 



While all nations had many men employed in various 

 departments, such workers find themselves in certain 



